Punkonomics (@DearBalak)

I’m grateful to my good buddy Jay Gordon who arranged this interview (sadly he’s working and cannot join us).

George Ciccariello-Maher has emerged as probably the best expert on Venezuelan political-economy over the past few years. I’m in the middle of his brilliant 1st book on the history of revolutionary movements in Venezuela entitled We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution — I learn something fascinating with every page (Kindle edition).

Find out more about his prolific work here.

George Ciccariello-Maher is a writer, radical political theorist, and currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He has taught radical theory and politics at Drexel, U.C. Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. He holds a B.A. in Government and Economics from St. Lawrence University, a B.A. Hons. and M.A. in Social and Political…